People
The faculty of Georgetown College and its diverse departments includes many who pursue research and teach on the nations and peoples of the Americas. They are listed here by department, with links to their web resumes.
Anthropology
- Denise Brennan Global sex trade, human trafficking, migration, women's labor and Latin America and the Caribbean
- Melissa Fisher Gender and class in America, Wall Street and global cities, corporate anthropology
- Joanne Rappaport Ethnicity, historical anthropology, new social movements, literacy, race, Andean ethnography and ethnohistory
- Susan Terrio Social class and educational systems, craft and commoditization, food and foodways, national identities and ideologies, history/historiography, urban culture and conflict, juvenile delinquency, Anthropology Chair, France-US comparative studies
Art, Music, and Theater
- Anna Celenza Music, 19th and 20th centuries
- Elizabeth Prelinger Modern art and architecture
- Derek Goldman
English
- Randall Bass New technologies, pedagogy, educational change
- Gay Cima 18th and 19th century black and white American women critics
- Brian Hockman
- Wayne Knoll Modern American literature, poetry
- Dana Luciano 19th-century US literature, feminist and queer theory
- Mark McMorris 20th century poetry & poetry writing, Caribbean poetry
- Lori Merish 19th-century American and Anglophone Caribbean literature and cultue
- Angelyn Mitchell American, African American and Caribbean literatures, critical theory
- Patricia O'Connor Grammar of agency and the functions of story in everyday lives, prison narratives, Appalachian literature
- Ricardo Ortiz Latino literature, comparative literature
- Christine So Contemporary Asian American literature, race and popular culture, theories of consumption
French
- Sylvie Durmelat Immigration in France, francophone Caribbean literatures and cultures
- Miléna Santoro Literature and culture of Québec
Geography and Geo-Science
Timothy Beach
Government
- Jonathan Ladd Political behavior, American political system
- Mark Rom American politics and public policy, social welfare policy
- R. Kent Weaver American and comparative social policy, politics of expertis
- John Bailey Mexican politics, national and public security in the Western Hemisphere
- Michael Bailey American politics and political economy: trade, Congress, election law, the Supreme Court
- Andrew Bennett American foreign policy process, international relations theory, qualitative research methods
- Eusebio Mujal-Leon European and Latin American politics
- Douglas Reed American constitutional law, judicial politics, American politics
- Michele Swers Congress, women and politics, issues of representation
- Arturo Valenzuela Origins and consolidation of democracy, Latin American politics, electoral systems, civil-military relations, political parties, regime transitions, U.S.-Latin American relations
- W. Clyde Wilcox Public opinion and electoral behavior, religion and politics, gender politics, politics of social issues
History
- Katherine Benton-Cohen
- Marcia Chatelain
- Alison Games Colonial America, Atlantic, migration
- Maurice Jackson Atlantic, African-American, radicalism, history of antislavery
- Michael Kazin U.S. social movements and politics, Reconstruction to present
- Erick Langer Latin America, Andes, social, economic, frontiers
- Chandra Manning U.S. civil war
- Bryan McCann Latin America, modern Brazil, popular culture
- Joseph McCartin 20th-century U.S. labor, social, political
- J.R. McNeill Environmental, Mediterranean, Atlantic
- David S. Painter U.S. diplomatic
- Adam Rothman Early national U.S., slavery, Atlantic
- John Tutino Latin America, Mexico, social/cultural/political
Psychology
- Garrison LeMasters
- Fathali Moghaddam
Deborah Phillips Early child development, environmental influences on development, child poverty
- Rebecca Ryan
- Jennifer Woolard Adolescent development in the family and legal contexts
Sociology
- William McDonald Crime and the administration of criminal justice
- Timothy Wickham-Crowley Political sociology, religion and society, revolution and society
Spanish and Portuguese
- Michael Ferreira
- Tania Gentic
- Gwen Kirkpatrick Latin American literatures, gender
- Adam Lifshey
- Bárbara Mújica Early modern Spanish literature and contemporary Latin American culture
- Verónica Salles-Reese Latin American literature
- Vivaldo Santos Brazilian literature, Brazilian popular music, Brazilian cinema
Theology
- Frederick Ruf Literature and religion